The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Honor in

a big way

5 “The Aviator”

actor, 2004

9 Fictional

swordsman

14 Stoked

15 Province

of NW Spain

16 Word that’s its own synonym when its first two letters are replaced with “w”

17 “At the ___” (subtitle of a 1978 hit)

18 Fellow

19 Relatives

of kites

20 N.E.A. member?:

Abbr.

21 Language

related to Hopi 23 Terse response

to an order

24 “Well, yeah!”

25 Md or Rn fig.

26 Notable 1973

defendant

27 Establishes

31 Dickens character “with a dead lull about her” 33 University

in Melbourne

35 Occasional

meat eater

37 Carl Sagan’s sequel to “Cosmos”

39 Gloss

42 Quick to put up,

in a way

44 Great Trek figure

of the 1830s

45 Spring’s cyclic

counterpart 47 Company behind Hitchcock’s “Notorious”

48 One making bank-to-bank transfers?

49 James and

Jones of jazz

51 Battles

52 Dungeons &

Dragons race

54 “___ it up and spit it out” (“My Way” lyric) 55 What’s more

56 Totally occupy 57 Trailer segment 58 Color close

to puce 59 Like many

towels

60 One of two areas

on a football line 61 Play award?

DOWN

1 Front

2 See how many

hits you get, say 3 Five-star

4 Pulitzer-winning

novelist Jennifer 5 Fountain growth 6 1994-2000

TV talk show

7 “Who’da

thunk it?!”

8 During

pregnancy

9 Crush

10 Be subtly and snarkily insulting

11 “Girls” girl played by Lena Dunham

12 Portmanteau in the frozen food aisle

13 Word with

sound or storm 22 Part of many

a scandal

28 Peddler of religious literature

29 Attempt to cure 30 Like many major

highways 32 Less genial

34 Science of

nutrition

36 Basic

38 Starts to practice 39 Jim ___, onehanded Yankee who pitched a no-hitter in 1993 40 Knuckle-headed

antic?

41 Like Mars

vis-à-vis Jupiter 43 Like centerfolds,

typically

46 Grill setting

50 9/

51 Use an e-cig

53 Bug catcher,

maybe